Which Canadian province or territory has the nicest shape?

FrAnKs · #1 Posted **Nov 24, 2019, 8:47 PM**

theman23 · #2 Posted **Nov 24, 2019, 8:54 PM**

I’m guessing this will be as popular as my “Great Canadian Pineapple Carving” thread.

FrAnKs · #3 Posted **Nov 24, 2019, 8:59 PM**

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Originally Posted by theman23

I’m guessing this will be as popular as my “Great Canadian Pineapple Carving” thread.

We will see! If not, too bad

Corndogger · #4 Posted **Nov 24, 2019, 10:00 PM**

Yukon.

Darkoshvilli · #5 Posted **Nov 24, 2019, 10:39 PM**

I like Quebec the most because that huge half circle along Hudson bay could be a massive impact crater billions of years old.

Acajack · #6 Posted **Nov 24, 2019, 10:40 PM**

I like islands so PEI or Newfoundland (island only).

MonctonRad · #7 Posted **Nov 24, 2019, 11:15 PM**

I vote New Brunswick because I can, and nobody else will........

Nova Scotia is honourable mention because it makes geographic sense and resembles a lobster.

Saskatchewan is boring.

isaidso · #8 Posted **Nov 24, 2019, 11:40 PM**

1. Nova Scotia
2. PEI
3. Nunavut

lio45 · #9 Posted **Nov 24, 2019, 11:46 PM**

PEI. Can't argue with man-drawn imaginary lines when those happen to perfectly match the preexisting ("God-made") geography.

NL's borders shouldn't include Labrador; I'm certainly not voting for that. So PEI it is.

vid · #10 Posted **Nov 24, 2019, 11:50 PM**

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Originally Posted by Darkoshvilli

I like Quebec the most because that huge half circle along Hudson bay could be a massive impact crater billions of years old.

It probably isn't, but it's not ruled out. It's certainly a unique region. The area on the Ontario side, the lowlands, has the lowest amount of gravity on earth, and that's likely due to a combination of the weight of the ice sheet pushing the land down so far, and the crust in the area being thinner, and close to a convective hot-spot.

I voted for Nova Scotia btw. Quebec was a close second.

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Originally Posted by lio45

PEI. Can't argue with man-drawn imaginary lines when those happen to perfectly match the preexisting ("God-made") geography.

NL's borders shouldn't include Labrador; I'm certainly not voting for that. So PEI it is.

Nova Scotia doesn't really have any straight line borders either, its border with New Brunswick follows waterways for over half of its length, only being a straight line to cross the height of land.

Acajack · #11 Posted **Nov 24, 2019, 11:56 PM**

Quebec's shape would look even better if we had Labrador.

Newfoundland + Labrador as a "cut out" map is incredibly ugly and looks totally off. Though as a I said the shape of the island only is really cool.

Fischbob · #12 Posted **Nov 25, 2019, 12:22 AM**

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Originally Posted by MonctonRad

I vote New Brunswick because I can, and nobody else will........

Wrong, I voted for NB as well - not just because I live there but because it looks like a sheep if you turn it sideways!

GeneralLeeTPHLS · #13 Posted **Nov 25, 2019, 12:41 AM**

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Originally Posted by Fischbob

Wrong, I voted for NB as well - not just because I live there but because it looks like a sheep if you turn it sideways!

I did as well. I find this question rather silly, but my thinking was that New Brunswick is rather well shaped in terms of not being too big and having a shape that can justify a connected sense of infrastructure....there's no peninsulas or islands separated, it's just one mass.

kwoldtimer · #14 Posted **Nov 25, 2019, 12:52 AM**

I would have thought that Saskatchewan would be the obvious answer. All the others look messy by comparison.

Bishop2047 · #15 Posted **Nov 25, 2019, 1:25 AM**

Nunavut - For looking like a blood splatter pattern.

Runner up - NB for being square but not toooo square.

rbt · #16 Posted **Nov 25, 2019, 2:28 AM**

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Runner up - NB for being square but not toooo square.

NB is both the closest to a square and the closest to a circle.

I voted Sask. due to the clean lines.

lio45 · #17 Posted **Nov 25, 2019, 2:46 AM**

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Originally Posted by kwoldtimer

I would have thought that Saskatchewan would be the obvious answer. All the others look messy by comparison.

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Originally Posted by rbt

NB is both the closest to a square and the closest to a circle.

I voted Sask. due to the clean lines.

Sask is atrociously unclean as a geometrical figure. At least Alberta has "square" borders + another well-defined border (the highest elevation line of a range), it's the one with the most appealing shape to my rational mind.